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Quote by Doris Lessing
I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not t

I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. – Doris Lessing

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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. – Doris Lessing

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing

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